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A new view for Graduate House At last the hoardings are down and University Square is officially opened. The outlook from Graduate House is now of trees, elegant walks and the promise of vine-covered arches. The Faculty of Law and some departments of Engineering and Science are moving into the new buildings surrounding the Square and the Faculty of Arts has returned to its origins, the University Quadrangle. TheVice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Gilbert (left) is pictured here at the official opening of the Square with our President, Frank Lees and his grandsons,Warren and Simon Hawkes.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Gilbert (left) is pictured here at the official opening of the Square with our President, Frank Lees and his grandsons, Warren and Simon Hawkes.
Arts returns to the University quadrangle By Professor Stuart Macintyre – Dean of the Faculty Early this year the Faculty of Law will vacate the University Quadrangle and move down to the southern-most building of the new University Square. That Faculty’s connections with the Quadrangle go back to 1857 when the first lectures in law were offered there. The connections can be traced back even earlier. William Edward Hearn, who became the first Dean of Law in 1873, arrived in Melbourne in 1855 as the foundation professor of modern history and literature, political economy and logic. He took up residence in the eastern wing of what would become (with the completion of its northern wing at the end of 1856) the University Quadrangle. By 1857 he had managed to reduce the responsibilities of the chair to the subjects of history and political economy, but earlier still Hearn had demonstrated his versatility when the foundation professor of classics and ancient history died before he was able to offer a lecture. Hearn filled in by teaching classics until the new professor arrived in 1856. The new professor was Martin Howy Irving and he gave lectures not just in Greek and Latin but English and logic. So in these early years both classics and philosophy were taught in the University’s original building. Hearn and Irving both taught and lived in the Quadrangle along with their families.
The light of Hearn’s lamp could be seen in his study window on the upper floor when the University was in darkness. During the nineteenth century the Quadrangle was often called simply ‘the University’. The early twentieth century, as other faculties moved out to their own premises, it became known as ‘the Main Building’. The Arts Faculty kept up its occupancy of the Quadrangle until the end of the Great War when it moved into a new building known as New Arts. New Arts is now called Old Arts and it contains just two of the Faculty’s departments. The Quadrangle provided for many other activities including student organisations such as the Princess Ida Club, which met in Hearn’s former study. When the Baillieu Library was built in the 1950s and the old library was turned into the Law Library, the Faculty of Law was left in sole occupancy. For the most recent generations the Quadrangle is known as the Law Quadrangle. After the Faculty of Law moves south, the Quadrangle will once again become the home of classics and philosophy. The Philosophy Department and its Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics will take most of the space: classicists and archaeologists from the School of Fine Arts, Classics and Archaeology will occupy part of the eastern wing.
The University Library will also benefit from the changes. It will make use of the present law library on the northern side of the Quadrangle for its special collections which are a precious resource for students of the humanities. There are also plans to remove the buildings that were subsequently added to the northern side of the Quadrangle, the Bookroom on the western side and the Scarborough Wing on the eastern side, so that the imposing original façade can once again be appreciated. The reallocation of accommodation in the University’s first and most important building has both historical resonance and practical utility. The Vice-Chancellor and the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor have taken a
Contents A New View from Graduate House
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Arts Returns to University Quadrangle
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Christmas at Graduate House
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Italian Dinner
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The Johnston Library (CO1)
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Installation of Fire Sprinklers (CO5)
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Residents’ Page
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Women’s Forum
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Backroom Boys
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Royal Horticultural Society, Burnley
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Chronology of Graduate Union (CO2)
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Letters from Readers
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Donations
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Elected Councillors
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New Members (carry over 3)
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Valete
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Binding of The Melbourne Graduate (CO4)
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The Melbourne Graduate mailout choices
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Coming Events
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Nominations Advice
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Nomination Proforma
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Copy for next issue closes
6 March 2002 The Melbourne Graduate is normally published four times a year by The Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne Incorporated. It is edited by Barbara Funder, Margaret Robins and Lyn Weston, under the direction of the Graduate Council and its Executive Committee. The Melbourne Graduate welcomes letters from readers and reserves the right to edit them for publication. Please keep word count to a maximum of 250 and address to The Editors, The Melbourne Graduate. Registered Address: The Graduate Union 224 Leicester Street, Carlton,Victoria 3053 Australia Telephone (03) 9347 3428 – Facsimile (03) 9347 9981 www.graduatehouse.com.au Email sec@graduatehouse.com.au Print Post Approved PP337834/00022 Register Association Number A0023234B Printed by Excelsior Printing Works 6 Clarice Road, Box Hill,Victoria 3128 Australia
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particular interest in the arrangement, mindful of the importance of the Quadrangle. When the University celebrates its sesquicentenary, it shall have two of its foundational disciplines installed in the heart of campus. Both these foundational disciplines have benefited from the support of the University’s principal officers for a strong Arts Faculty. Philosophy and Classics need the new space because both are growing. Each has made new appointments of staff. Under its new Head, Professor Graham Priest, the Philosophy Department has developed a plan for increased teaching and research. The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, led by Professor Tony Coady, has used its funding from the Australian Research Council to build a strong complement of staff. From 2002 the Quadrangle will be one more of the many buildings that house the Faculty. The majority of members of the School of Fine Arts, Classics and Archaeology will remain in what used to be known as Old Pathology but is now the Elisabeth Murdoch Building (in recognit- ion of her support and that of her family for fine arts). The School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies is in Old Commerce but will move to the more modern building in Bouverie Street. The Institute of Asian Languages and Societies has recently taken up residence in the striking new building on Swanston Street that was constructed with the assistance of the Myer family. The departments of English, History and Political Science remain in the John Medley Building with the Horwood Language Centre. The School of Languages is on the upper floors of the Arts Centre on the corner of Swanston and Grattan Streets, along with the School of Creative Arts, which joined the Faculty a year ago. The Australian Centre occupies terraces in Barry Street. The Department of Criminology, the School of Social Work and two important Faculty centres are down in Queensberry Street. Other centres also operate in buildings south of Grattan Street. Both staff and students remark on the distances that have to be traversed as you move from one class to another. The customary ten-minute break between lectures and tutorials is scarcely sufficient for the journeys that are now necessary. The dispersed nature of the Faculty attests to the growth of new activities and the continual pressure to find additional space. If we were simply doing the things we did even a decade ago, the proliferation of buildings occupied by Arts would not be necessary. And if that were the case, the Faculty would be stagnant – lagging in its research activity, unable to provide the teaching that keeps the Faculty solvent and successful. The great challenge for the humanities and social sciences in Australia is to keep their place at a table where the fullest rations are allocated to the providers of commercially useful knowledge and professional training. The humanities and social sciences can partake of the knowledge industries. The Faculty is alert to the opportunities to apply the insights of its disciplines in specialist courses, consultancies and industry partnerships. We do so, however, on the basis of an unshakable commitment to maintain our core disciplines. The Bachelor of Arts as a general degree remains our flagship. Research and scholarship across the full range of languages, humanities and social sciences is the basis of our present and future success. For that reason it is particularly fitting that when the University celebrates its one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, the disciplines of philosophy and classics will be back where they began, at the heart of the campus. Reprinted with the kind permission of the author.
The Melbourne Graduate, February 2002
CHRISTMAS AT GRADUATE HOUSE TO ALL ADMIRERS OF THE ITALIAN A lively party was had when Santa visited Graduate House dispensing LANGUAGE: Christmas cheer and goodies to nearly a hundred Graduate Union members on 14 December. Residents entertained during the pre-dinner drinks with songs from their homelands and, after a traditional Christmas Dinner, the Nordic Voices of the Scandinavian Choir celebrated the Festival of Lucia with carols by candlelight. The Scandinavian Choir, directed by Staffan Thuringer, performs at Sunday services at the Swedish Church in Toorak each month. The Nordic Voices is a small group of this choir, made up of Swedes, Danes, Finns, Norwegians and occasionally Icelanders. We would like to thank Dr John Martin for arranging their part in our Christmas celebrations.
The Scandinavian Choir.
RESIDENTS’ CHRISTMAS PARTY Councillors joined residents for a Christmas celebration on 30 November. With exams finished and the prospect of holidays ahead, residents were certainly in the party mood. Enjoying a glass or two of wine are Cecile Ott, Michael Verhofen and Kobus Smit with President, Frank Lees, and Vice President, Bob Gibson, clearly enjoying the convivial company. Councillors Neil Taylor and John Binns are pictured enjoying the company of Winnie Wong and Mauro De Lorenzi.
Join us for a stimulating and pleasurable experience. Some ten years ago Ingrid Burke planned and started a series of Language Dinners – Italian, French and German. After her untimely death several years later, with the consequent loss of her enormous enthusiasm and dynamism, we were left with but one survivor, the Italian Dinner. Our survival is largely due to the loyalty of our teacher, Gianni Marinelli, who has been with us since its inception. Illness has deprived us of several members; changes in circumstances have accounted for others. Perhaps newcomers are frightened away by the awesome sound of our meeting but let me assure you we can accommodate all except, perhaps, the PhD student. Since we are selfsupporting we are now struggling for survival. Every first Monday night of the month we meet at 6.30 in the Anderson Room and there indulge in polite conversation fra noi. By 7.00 pm latecomers are with us and we proceed to the dining room for dinner – kitchen arrangements require us to be seated by then. We start with an excellent meal during which we do a short grammar exercise, tricky but not serious enough to spoil the meal or overtax the grey matter. After dinner we take coffee in the Anderson Room then break into groups of three or four who are at much the same level as ourselves. Gianni gives us each an article from a paper or magazine. We read and interpret this then discuss it with our group. These evenings finish at about 9.30 pm and are both enjoyable and stimulating and well worth your patronage. Because we pay for the services of a professional teacher we need more participants in the class to be able to continue this necessary luxury. All you need to join us is a real interest in this beautiful language and some basic vocabulary. Patricia Boaden
THE JOHNSTON LIBRARY Donation to the Library Dr John Martin, who reviewed Judith Armstrong’s delightful story of the de Pieri brothers in our December issue, has kindly donated his copy to the Library. We thank him for his contribution as reviewer and donor.
Christmas celebrations.
The Melbourne Graduate, February 2002
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RESIDENTS OF GRADUATE HOUSE
THE WOMEN’S FORUM
WIDOWATI SISWOMIHARDJO
In 1994 Shirley Horne and I decided that women had had plenty of experience of being preached at, lectured and talked down to (especially by some highly intelligent husbands unwilling to accept that they had equally intelligent wives). We decided to rebel and do the talking ourselves; we would establish a Women’s Forum where members could ‘have their say’ in a congenial and sympathetic atmosphere of complete silence.
Widowati is on the teaching staff in the Faculty of Dentistry at the Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, in Indonesia. She is a scholarship holder at the School of Dentistry, University of Melbourne as part of her post-doctoral program. This is her first visit to Australia and, although she has travelled widely, she is surprised at the large number of Asians in Melbourne: in the Dental School she has found many Indonesian students amongst the undergraduates. Widowati says that this has lessened her homesickness considerably, but she cannot get used to the unpredicability of Melbourne’s weather and the need to be prepared for all seasons in one day She is hoping to see more of the state and possibly to see real koalas and kangaroos before she returns to Indonesia later in the year. ASHWINI LOGANATHAN
We choose a broad topic eg, ‘Refugees’, ‘Democracy’, ‘Humour’, ‘Ethics and the Dollar’. Members may present any aspect or facet that interests them. Rarely do people choose a similar approach. Each member is allotted an amount of speaking time, arrived at by dividing time available by the number of people present – six minutes is the average. To speak is not obligatory. Whilst a member speaks there must be no interruption or discussion: we pay her the courtesy of listening in complete silence, sometimes a challenge when one is nurturing a devastating blow to an argument! When all have spoken the fun begins – Open Forum where arguments can be supported or demolished while speakers defend their theories and propositions against spirited, but never hostile, opposition. Personalities are never an issue, only the ideas presented. At 12.30 pm we have lunch, sometimes continuing to thrash out ideas from Open Forum; other times we are just human and talk on a more personal note. Staying to lunch is optional. We would welcome new members whose different ideas and attitudes could only enrich our proceedings. Patricia Boaden
The Forum meets in the Anderson Room every second Monday of the month,excluding public holidays,at 10 am.Forthcoming topics appear in COMING EVENTS and in the mail-outs. Please advise Graduate House by the preceding Friday if you intend staying for lunch. Ashwini is a long term resident at Graduate House. She was born in Sri Lanka but her family moved to Nigeria when she was four years old, then to Papua New Guinea, and finally settled in Palmerston, New Zealand. She moved to Melbourne in 1998 to do her PhD in Dental Science and has lived at Graduate House during this time. She has thoroughly enjoyed being here and one of the many highlights has been living in Graduate House where she has had the opportunity to meet so many wonderful people from all round the world and make some lifelong friendships. Despite her heavy workload, Ashwini finds time to watch the cricket and barrack for the Kiwis. Her long-term goal is to travel abroad and find post-doctoral work in the USA or Canada. In the short term, she is planning a holiday with her family in New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
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VOLUNTEERS’ CHRISTMAS LUNCH Following the monthly-mail out on 10 December, volunteers joined the Secretary-Warden and staff for a traditional Christmas lunch of turkey, ham and Christmas pudding. Without the volunteers the monthly mail-out would not be possible and our sincere thanks go to them all for their continuing dedication to the Graduate Union.
The Melbourne Graduate, February 2002
The Backroom Boys
RSA* VISIT TO BURNLEY HORTICULTURAL GARDENS The Secretary-Warden, Eugene Spanti, and Council member, Barbara Funder, visited the Burnley Horticultural Gardens on 30 October at the invitation of RSA Fellow, Frank Lees. For those who had only had a view of these historic gardens from the Yarra Boulevard, it was a delight to appreciate the settings from within and to note the continuity and purpose prevailing since the college was begun in 1891. Those present enjoyed an entertaining and informative talk and guided tour of the gardens by the Director, Dr Gregory Moore, followed by afternoon tea.
Peter McQuie and Ronald Keys. Before there was ever a college in a terrace for the Graduate Union, Bill Berry was already organising and publishing the Newsletter from the tiny upstairs room in Barry Street which was the Union secretariat’s first home. Here enter our players, Peter McQuie and Ron Keys of Excelsior Printing Works. It is to the graphic appreciation of these two that we owe the appearance and clarity of The Melbourne Graduate and they contribute far more than is normally expected of a printer. Now that the days of paste-ups are past, it is they who design the format which we hope is pleasing to our readers and draws them in.
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, on behalf of RSA Fellows, thanked the Director and highlighted the importance of horticultural education for both professional and personal values. Dr Moore remarked in his talk that when streetscapes and open park spaces are planned in Melbourne, consultation about appropriate plantings does not always occur. Eugene and Barbara spoke to him about Graduate House’s place on University Square and its own future garden planning. We hope to arrange a later visit by the Director to our college and will seek his advice when formulating our plans.
*Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce.
By the end of the 1950s Peter McQuie was on the scene, representing our then printers, A.H. Massina, who worked largely for the University. Peter still remembers the days when, early and late, he and Bill exchanged copy and proofs in that little room or at Ajax Pumps, where Bill was company accountant while nurturing the Union in his spare hours. Mergers and takeovers have seen varying printers through the years, including Frank Daniels, Capitol and Excelsior, but for all except one year since (as the result of one of the takeovers) Peter has contributed his talents to the production of The Melbourne Graduate. He has moved from the original hot metal process to cold metal to complete electronic technology – and savoured it all. In 1996 he was joined by Ron Keys ‘because Peter was retiring’ and a successor was needed to ensure the same service and standards to which the Union had become accustomed. The retiring Peter, however, found his interest engaged by computer typesetting and he continued part-time in an alliance with Ron which, in its professional approach, has consistently eased our tensions in putting the newsletter ‘to bed’. Ron trained as a graphic designer but became interested in printing and finds combining these talents invaluable at Excelsior which, to us, he seems always to have been. Neither he nor Peter wanted to be confined to a management-only career and found the mixture of management, sales and technological practice ideal. Now Peter really has retired – to golf, Probus, the U3A and his family and we have to say goodbye to a 40-year partnership. We are happy for him and selfishly content that Ron as Production and now Sales Manager will maintain and value standards of publication ‘that make people interested in the pages they’re reading’.
Eugene Spanti and Barbara Funder at the Burnley Horticultural Gardens.
HISTORIC CHRONOLOGY – THE GRADUATE UNION Our Milestone First AGM 1911 (Melbourne University Graduates’ Association) sparked requests for further information concerning nomenclature since then. The Graduates’ Association in its various incarnations has achieved ninety years of continued independent existence as: Melbourne University Association
1911 - 1937
Graduates’ Section, MU Union
1938 - 1952
The Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne
Since 1953
The next 90 years are eagerly anticipated by us all.
Margaret Robins
The Melbourne Graduate, February 2002
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Letters from our readers... From Associate Professor S W Johnston, Kew – to the Editors I congratulate editors Funder, Robins and Weston on The Melbourne Graduate 54(4): it is of the first quality in its diverse content and attractive style, it captures the new spirit of the growing Graduate Union, and it is most interesting. Hart’s article might suggest that the GU could sponsor a workshop to consider revising the Melbourne University Act 1958 s 19, which purports to prevent the University from teaching divinity. The newsletter is not half so nice to read on the screen. But I appreciate your wisdom in cost-cutting, in keeping with your accompanying letter therefore please accept this email response. I wish to continue receiving The Melbourne Graduate and the monthly mailout of Graduate House Events (not the Solo and Gradlinks newsletters). I have Internet access. My contact details have not changed; but I repeat them below. (By the way, there is no way that ‘Barbeques’ can be pronounced ‘Barbecues’. Please spell the word correctly.) 22 November 2001 From Dr Ben Wadham, Queenscliff I have neglected donations to the Building Fund in recent years because of the uncertainty hanging over the GU’s future. I am sending this contribution as a token of my belief that the Union and House now enjoy a more certain future. 23 November 2001 From Darren Room, South Yarra – to the Chairman I have been a member of the Graduate Union for 4 decades and I am writing to suggest that for the first time for many years I feel very positive about the Graduate Union. There is a new spirit at Graduate House. At the recent Spit Roast on 25-1-02 I was amazed at how well staff, residents and members related to each other and I was most impressed by the fact that the whole event was organised and conducted by the staff of the Graduate House, not contractors. Looking across the new Square, the building looks most handsome, albeit that it needs to be spruced up and repainted in keeping with the improved local area. Perhaps the most impressive aspect is the friendly, welcome and hospitable atmosphere at the Graduate House now. Surely this must reflect the attitude and manner of the staff and management. It is so impressive a change that I am sure you and your Council would have noted it. However, I felt I should ensure that my views, at least, are made known. My congratulations to all involved. 5 February 2002
FIRE SPRINKLERS For the safety of residents, visitors and staff fire sprinklers have now been installed throughout Graduate House. Whilst this has been a relatively costly exercise, Council and management believe this measure to be of paramount importance.
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DONATIONS Graduate Union Building Fund $200 – R Mellor, S Siemon $150 – J Knight $120 – J Binns $100 – J Knight, H Pratt, B Wadham, R Ritchie, R Manuel, D & J Kerr, N Verity, J Wellings, A Bainbridge, M Atkinson, E Butt, J Syme, C&M Pawsey, J Lawry, $ 50 – B Stevenson P McCann, P Campbell, J Mason, M Sanders, M Johnson, A Maclean, S Fallaw, C Clark, E Nagy, D Weaver, B Ives, L Pentilla, J Pretty, S&M Dean, D Hutton, E Doyle, I Hamilton-Scott, P Kay, A Rusden, anonymous $ 40 – M Hetherington $ 30 – M Maslen, B Craven, L Penn-Tonkin, L Jones, H Simon, N&A Tulloch $ 25 – H Lorraine, W Cushing, L Hartman, J Beale, J Hartwig, K Mawson, J Galbraith, K Truscott, A Jack, J Henderson, F McConnell, A Lowe, C Hughes, F Kindler, K Beaumont, P Bailey, D Moore, D Beavis, M de Saint-Ferjeux, E Muntz $ 20 – G Goode, G Wilson, K Eltham, L Lane, A Birnitis, B Taylor, N Couchman, J Charlton, M Euhus, E Ellis, R Harris, B Hamer, J Clarke, J Pike, J Epstein, E Hoitinga, K Robinson, B Green, Y White, H Carroll, L Thomson, E Gilbert, K Rankin, J Cirksis, A Campain $ 15 – J Hoffman, G Shaw $ 10 – T Saccuzzo, C Molloy $ 5 – I Proctor The Residents’Assistance Fund $100 – H Pratt, Y Aitken $ 50 – D Weaver, S Hosking, G Ryles, C McCall, V Smith $ 40 – R Walker $ 20 – Z Martin $ 25 – A Salter, E Muntz $ 15 – J Hoffman, R Surridge $ 10 – T Saccuzzo Printing and Postage $ 15 – M Wass, G Parkes, I Toohey, $ 10 – J Besley, J Manley, M Scarlett, E Brookes, $ 5 – G Bartle, R Surridge
ELECTED COUNCILLORS AS AT JANUARY 31, 2002 Until May 2004 Dr David T Bellair Dr David A McCredie Professor Terence Sabine Mr Neil J Taylor
Until May 2002 Dr John C Binns Dr Robert W Gibson Mr John Gill Ms Margaret R Robins
Until May 2003 Mr Andre G Cleghorn Miss Barbara A Funder Mr Mitchell C McKenzie Ms Elizabeth A Shellard
The Melbourne Graduate, February 2002
NEW MEMBERS
VALETE
The following new members joined the Graduate Union in the period August to October 2001.
Since publication of the December Graduate we have been notified of the deaths of the following members:
We welcome them and look forward to their participation in our members’ programs.
Robert W Cannon OAM, Life Member, joined 1965
ANTONIO, A MBA(Ramon Llull) ARNOLD, H DipArt, GradDipArt(Monash) BOURKE, A MMBS, MBiothies(Monash) CLOGAN, G DipTeach(ACU). BEd, GradDipMusEd, MEd(Ballarat) FITCHETT, M BAppSc(RMIT) GANNON, J BA GHIAZZA, M BArch(PolitecnicodiTornino) HOLDAWAY, B BAppSc, BChemEng (Qld) HU, J BCom(Deakin) JUNG, H. BA(Victoria University, NZ) MACK, K BA(Michigan) MANDANNA, K BCom(Bangalore), PGOFM(AICTE) McPHERSON, G BSc, DipEd. MA(Monash) MILKINS, E BMEng, MScEng(London), DipIC(DIC) MILLER, R BA MORWOOD, C BA(LaTrobe), BEd(Deakin) NABATHUR, S BSc, GradDip(Monash), MSc, MHealth Mngmnt(Syd), GradDipIT(Swinburne) O’HALLORAN, J TTTC(Hawthorn), BA, GradDipTESL(Deakin) SAUL, B BA(Hons), MA(Monash) TEO, D BBus(RMIT) WEWERINKE, M MD(Groningen) XU, H BA(Guangzhou), MA(LaTrobe), DipEd(Singapore) YAJIMA, N Master of International Relations(Bond University) YEO, C BSc(Hons)(Singapore) ZHOU, Z BMngt(Beijing) All degrees are from University of Melbourne unless otherwise noted. Degrees are stated as presented on members’ application forms.
COMING EVENTS MONTHLY LUNCHEON SPEAKERS Upcoming speakers for the forthcoming Monthly Luncheons are: March 6 Nicholas Sampson, Principal of Geelong Grammar April 3 Christine Nixon, Chief Commissioner of Police, May 1 Charles Goode AC, Chairman of ANZ Bank 30 May AGM – Autumn Dinner Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja June 5 Raimond Gaita, Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University July 3 Sally Salter, Curator, Cypriot Section, Classics & Archaeology Exhibition, Potter Gallery July 19 Christmas in July Winter Dinner REGULAR EVENTS AT GRADUATE HOUSE 1st Monday each month The Italian Conversation Dinner 6.30 for 7.00 pm 2nd Monday each month Women’s Forum 10.00 am March - Fear in the Community April - Parliamentary Performance 2nd Friday each month Gradlinks’ Dinner 7.00 pm for 8.00 pm 4th Friday each month Solos’ Dinner 7.00 pm for 8.00 pm
The Melbourne Graduate, February 2002
Barbara M Darvall, Life Member, joined 1955 Hilda H Fletcher, Life Member, joined 1949 Louise Homfrey, Hon Life Member, joined 1965 Kenneth J Jenkinson, Life Member, joined 1948 Alan D Latham, Life Member, joined 1948 Estelle A Rennie, Life Member, joined 1977 Mary D Winter, Life Member, joined 1968 The Graduate Union appreciates the support of these members throughout their lives and at their passing feels a sense of loss. We regret that space constraints do not allow individual acknowledgement of each late member of our community.
Death of our oldest member The graduate community, particularly those who recall the days of thriving graduate theatre, is saddened to learn of the death of Louise Homfrey last November, shortly before her 101st birthday. She was an Honorary Life Member of the Graduate Union. This honour was given in recognition of her outstanding services to the graduate dramatic group, The Tin Alley Players, Louise celebrated her 100th birthday in Graduate House in December 2000. Our tribute to her was featured in the April 2001 issue of The Graduate. Our condolences go to those close to her at the end of a very special life. Although Dr Struan Sutherland and Dr Herbert Feith were not members, it is impossible not to note their passing in light of their great contributions to academia and the wider community.
THE MELBOURNE GRADUATE The Graduate, as well as other regular mail-outs, is now available by email and on the website (www.graduatehouse.com.au) or in printed format. Members are free to choose the format they prefer but should advise Graduate House of their choice.
Binding of back copies of The Melbourne Graduate The Melbourne Graduate was regularly bound from 1950 to 1984, but since then has been simply filed in plastic folders on the Johnston Library shelves. The Graduate is the only continuing history of the Graduate Union, other than Council Minutes, and the Past Graduates and PostGraduates Society had some concerns for its preservation in permanent form. The Committee of PG&PGS recently approved the release of funds from its administrative account for binding copies of The Graduate from 1985 to 2001 and they are now available for members use in the Johnston Library.
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PROFORMA NOMINATION FOR ELECTION TO GRADUATE COUNCIL 2002
I, ................................................................................................ (PRINT FULL NAME OF PROPOSER)
................................................................................................ (SIGNATURE OF PROPOSER) hereby nominate the following member for the above election
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I, ................................................................................................ (PRINT FULL NAME OF SECONDER)
THE GRADUATE COUNCIL Notice of Election Nominations are hereby called for the election of four Council members to hold office from the date of the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday, 30 May 2002. Any vacancies occurring prior to the close of nominations will be included within this election. A proforma is attached, but no special form is required. Valid nominations must include the FULL PRINTED NAME and the signature of the proposer, seconder and candidate, all of whom must be members. All nominations are to be in a sealed envelope and addressed to: Returning Officer The Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne Inc. 224 Leicester Street CARLTON VIC 3053 Candidates should submit at the time of their nomination: • full name and degree(s); • a passport size photo of themselves; and
................................................................................................ (SIGNATURE OF SECONDER) hereby second the following member for the above election
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• not more than eighty words of personal information and policies. The eighty-word statement is in addition to the full names and degree(s). All words after eighty may be deleted. Nominations close at The Graduate Union Office on
I, ................................................................................................ (PRINT FULL NAME OF CANDIDATE) hereby consent to being a candidate for the above election, and submit the attached photograph and information, not exceeding eighty words to be distributed with the ballot paper. I understand that councillors are normally asked to serve on at least one committee of Council.
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Wednesday 20 March 2002 at 4pm A nomination may be lodged by facsimile to (03) 9347 9981 provided that the original is received by 4 pm on 22 March 2002. Ronald G. Ritchie Returning Officer Please refer to page 6 for the names of current elected Councillors.
The Melbourne Graduate, February 2002